| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Nana, Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille by Emile Zola: doubts as to the exact nature of the Marquis de Chouard's duties.
Indeed, he had been thinking of a pretty woman whom the marquis
occasionally took into the country with him. Perhaps they could get
her too.
In the meantime Fauchery decided that the moment had come in which
to risk giving Count Muff his invitation. The evening, in fact,
was drawing to a close.
"Are you serious?" asked Vandeuvres, who thought a joke was
intended.
"Extremely serious. If I don't execute my commission she'll tear my
eyes out. It's a case of landing her fish, you know."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Pupil by Henry James: spite of the inconvenience I suffer. You know my situation
perfectly. I haven't a penny in the world and, occupied as you see
me with Morgan, am unable to earn money."
Mrs. Moreen tapped her undressed arm with her folded bank-note.
"Can't you write articles? Can't you translate as I do?"
"I don't know about translating; it's wretchedly paid."
"I'm glad to earn what I can," said Mrs. Moreen with prodigious
virtue.
"You ought to tell me who you do it for." Pemberton paused a
moment, and she said nothing; so he added: "I've tried to turn off
some little sketches, but the magazines won't have them - they're
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Othello by William Shakespeare: To get his Place, and to plume vp my will
In double Knauery. How? How? Let's see.
After some time, to abuse Othello's eares,
That he is too familiar with his wife:
He hath a person, and a smooth dispose
To be suspected: fram'd to make women false.
The Moore is of a free, and open Nature,
That thinkes men honest, that but seeme to be so,
And will as tenderly be lead by'th' Nose
As Asses are:
I hau't: it is engendred: Hell, and Night,
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